A new chapter!
I have relocated to the Island of Hawaii and taken a temporary position with Hawaii County Civil Defense and the Project Manager for the County's Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan Update.
I was the Administrator for the first iteration of the Plan and am excited to be able to take part in this third iteration. We have a number of goals for this project:
I have relocated to the Island of Hawaii and taken a temporary position with Hawaii County Civil Defense and the Project Manager for the County's Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan Update.
I was the Administrator for the first iteration of the Plan and am excited to be able to take part in this third iteration. We have a number of goals for this project:
- Ensure the plan is drafted and compiled in a completely 'nested' fashion with State Civil Defense and FEMA. This will ensure a quicker, less 'painful' approval process.
- Reduce the size of the plan. No one reads a three volume, 1000+ page plan...no one! As a result we will make efforts to follow the KISS Principle (Keep It Simple Stupid). We plan to have a more comprehensive Executive Summary, and reduce the tabular, statistical data. It is a five year plan and as a result someone hoping to execute a mitigation strategy in year 3 of the plan would not use data that is three years old...so why include it. Rather, just list where the more current data resides.
- Add in some new hazard data; lava flow, volcanic gas (VOG), climate change/sea level rise and hazardous flora (Albizia Trees).
